In the run-up to Christmas, we look at bands and artists which impressed us or had some impact in 2016!

Sweden’s Cult of Luna are a band who when they come to town, everyone knows it’s an event. They’re the band you’d take the day off work for, you’d leave the kids with a babysitter for and a band who are worth the cost of the travel and ticket. As one of the most consistently amazing live acts currently touring, give the gift of Cult of Luna this Christmas. They’ve had an amazing year, they nearly sold out their 10th Anniversary tour of Somewhere Along The Highway(the London show was one of the best shows of the year), played Roadburn and Damnation and released an amazing collaboration with Julie Christmas called Mariner. Cult of Luna are one of the greatest bands to walk the earth and with Vertikal in 2013 released one of the albums of the decade. In my opinion they are the greatest post-metal band of all time and a band that pushes the boat out more than a lifeguard, a truly inventive collective of musicians.

I am a recent graduate from the University of Essex in Colchester where by the luck of Odin I met the editor, Dom. I first got into metal when I was 13 and now I am 22 and own an uncountable amount of band T-shirts. I also regularly attend gigs (local and in neighbouring areas) as well as festivals. My musical taste is varied; I like nu metal (my first love), thrash, black, death, doom, folk, sludge (my favourite genre), symphonic and many more of the multiple genres that metal has to offer, I even like some metalcore (I know it's a dirty word within some metal circles but some of it is outstanding). One of my most memorable metal moments was meeting Grand Magus at the Bloodstock signing tent and having the whole tent to myself, spending a few minutes talking to them.

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You will be pleasantly surprised as Mut will undoubtedly impress in the right areas if you’re a fan of the progressive and slow, however, it begs whether other fans may dare to endeavour in this direction. Definitely worth it.